Steve Howe The Steve Howe Album (Vinyl, Atlantic Records, 1979) ***
Genre: Prog rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Pennants
Gear costume: Double Rondo
Active compensatory factors: Steve Howe has been the lead guitarist for Yes throughout most of their career (in fact he's still in the band).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Pennants
Gear costume: Double Rondo
These were his first two solo albums (although Alan White also appears on drums).
He's a great guitarist and reveals his guitar prowess in a variety of settings throughout these albums. He is not a vocalist, however, so that's a weakness on Beginnings (the album).
Thankfully he only sings on one track on The Steve Howe Album. On that one he sticks to his considerable strengths as a musician! There is still a wide selection of styles but this is well named - the Steve Howe Album.
Unfortunately, unlike The Steve Howe Album, there is nothing on Beginnings that lingers long after the needle comes off.
Honourable mention to the brilliant covers by Roger Dean! I love his paintings.
Where do they all belong? Only his two seventies solo albums in my collection, with no great desire to own any more.
Where do they all belong? Only his two seventies solo albums in my collection, with no great desire to own any more.
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